concentration camps

A U.S. military court at Dachau today sentenced ## death five German officials of the Mauthausen concentration camp, where thousands Jews were worked to death or murdered. The chief defendant was Max Pausch, who ##manded an annex of the camp. More ▸

Heinz Bollhorst, a former official of the Mauthausen death camp, was today sentenced to life imprisonment by an American military court at Dachau for having participated in the murder of 14 Dutch Jews at the camp, it was reported here today. More ▸

American and British authorities in Germany and Austria are not heeding Czech requests for extradition from their zones of war criminals who killed and deported many Czechoslovak Jews, Jewish circles said today. Prague newspapers have also commented on the situation. The newspaper Prace (Work) pointed out this week that Sturmbandfuehrer Anton Burger, one of the… More ▸

An American military tribunal in Dachau today sentenced to death by hanging, Otto Kleinguenther and Christian Wohlcrab, former SS ## and medical orderlies at Mauthausen concentration camp. They were found guilty of having murdered inmates of the camp by giving them injections with gasoline. The number of their victims was not known. Steffen Malleschits, a… More ▸

An eight-man American military tribunal today sentenced to death 22 of 31 Nazi guards, officials and doctors at the Buchenwald extermination camp. The remaining nine defendants received terms ranging from 10 years to life imprisonment. All were convicted of charges of torture and murder of thousands, including many Jews. Five of the nine whose lives… More ▸

A former inmate of the Mauthausen death camp today told an American military tribunal trying eight former guards and officials at the camp that Jews were forced to Jump into electrically-charged fences to be burned death. The witness, who preferred to remain unidentified because of fear of reprisals, testified that he saw Franz Koffler, one… More ▸

Thirty-one camp guards and doctors at the ?torious Buchenwald death camp were today found guilty of a number of war crimes by ? American military court. The sentences will be announced Thursday. Among the defendants was Ilse Koch, widow of the camp’s commandant, who was larged with having lampshades made from the skins of her… More ▸

Crestaw Stolarski, former block-leader in the Austalian death camp Ebensee, has been sentenced to death by hanging, it was announced (##)re. Similar sentences were imposed on Hans Schroder, leader of the labor camp at (##)ttin, Alphonse Pietrushevski, an official of the Mauthausen Camp and Antonina Koto(##)z, Bruno Ciepikowski and Karl Lehrke, who betrayed Jews to… More ▸

Anton Burger, former commander of the Theresienstadt concentration camp, has escaped from an American prison camp at Glasenbach, near Salzburg, it was reported here today. The trial of 31 camp guards and doctors at the Buchenwald camp has reopened before an American military court at Dachau. It was postponed on June 16 to permit defense… More ▸

Karl Schoepperle, a Gestapo officer convicted of having flogged 16 Jews to death and having murdered a number of other concentration camp prisoners, has been sentenced to death by an American military court here. Schoepperle was commandant of a section of the Mauthausen death camp known as “Linz Three.” Four other camp officials were also… More ▸